In Yanukovych's opinion, Vlasenko was responsible for the worsening of EU-Ukraine relations.

What Yanukovych said was complete bullshit.

For his information:

"Almost 20% of [British] MPs are earning supplementary incomes through second jobs, with some earning hundreds of thousands of pounds through external positions. The 'Sun on Sunday' reports that Parliament's register of interest shows 119 MPs have jobs outside of Parliament, and that Geoffrey Cox – Conservative MP for Torridge and West Devon – has earned £560,000 since through his work as a barrister since December. Only 315 out of 650 MPs registered no external income" [Source]

And

"Dozens of MPs are boosting their taxpayer-funded salaries by tens of thousands of pounds by taking second jobs...new analysis found that as well as drawing their MPs salary of £65,738, many are juggling their political work with jobs in careers such as law, consulting and business and making up to 13 times their annual pay." [Source]

If an MP's second job does not detract from his or her prime duty as an MP there is no problem, provided that the second job bears no relation to the MP's political influence on political decision-making.

All British MPs have to declare their outside financial interests in official registers of interests that are available for public scrutiny, e.g. by journalists.

In Great Britain, Vlasenko's behaviour would be deemed perfectly acceptable - especially as he claims he is receiving no payment for his services as Tymoshenko's legal defender.

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elmer
said...

Yes, it it complete BS.

But he and the Regionnaires have been spouting this kind of BS about other countries for years - because, for the most part, the population in Ukraine doesn't really know what it's like in other countries, and even if it's double-checked, the population in Ukraine still won't know.

I can't tell you how many times I have nearly fallen out of my chair over the years when I saw the various Regionnaires spouting absolutely false statements about other countries.

And they weren't corrected by the host, such as Savik Shuster, or other hosts.

These days, it is happening less and less, because the TV talk show hosts seem to be much better informed.

But - they still count on lack of information in Ukraine about other countries, among other things.

Just curious, what britains think about their MPs having second jobs? Because, well, MP is not a job where you work fixed hours. And not a job which productivity can be examined precisely enough. I doubt that many of the serious CEOs/top managers have a second job.